Ubuntu accidentally lost another package from its cloud images

Another package went missing from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images, this time xxd , a CLI tool for viewing files as hexadecimals. It’s the second time this has happened, following the accidental removal of curl I reported on in August. Both packages vanished for the same reason. When Canonical dropped its pollinate tool, which had been used to generate ‘randomness’ during boot, it altered the image’s dependency chain and packages that relied on it, quietly disappeared along with it. While xxd wasn’t present on the initial set of image, it was still available to install from the Ubuntu’s archive. Canonical has since restored […]
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